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The Paris Agreement, the European Green Plan, the 'Ready for 55' Package and ending the European Union's dependence on Russian fossil fuels are some of the challenges currently facing energy and power sector. Consequently, the district heating systems, that is, the more or less centralized supply of thermal energy, should also be decarbonized.

How to cover the needs for heat from renewable sources, which projects are being implemented and planned in the field of district heating, and which are the modern technologies, products and services for the production, distribution and supply of thermal energy are questions that have been answered for the third year in a row by the District Heating - Forum on District Heating and Cooling which was held in Osijek on 14 and 15 September 2023.

Summer is slowly going to an end and colder days are coming. Although many citizens who are connected to district heating systems in several Croatian cities did not have hot water this summer, this is because almost everywhere extensive works are underway in order to modernize, reconstruct, restore and expand these systems, all with the aim of establishing safer, more reliable, more economical and ecological heat supply not only in the coming heating season, but also in the years to come. After all, district heating systems are the future of heating.

All of these projects, and much more, will be among the topics of this year's, already the third, Forum on District Heating and Cooling - DISTRICT HEATING 2023.

See you in Osijek on 14 and 15 September 14!

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For 20 years Croatian Seminars on Pressure Equipment have met the expectations of participants and brought new ideas for the improvement of the entire field of pressure equipment, encouraging responsible persons and relevant state authorities to cooperate in this area full of special features and extremely important for the entire economy.

Namely, as it was pointed out at the jubilee, 20th Croatian Seminar on Pressure Equipment, and what has been constantly repeated in the past two decades of the struggle for this technical field of expertize, pressure equipment is considered an extremely sensitive and demanding area due to the danger to people, the environment and material goods, therefore to which must be given special attention.

The possibility of Croatian industry to participate in the DONES fusion project, requirements and peculiarities in aluminum welding, reviews of problems in the work of inspection bodies and perspectives on their resolution, traceability of welding works during repairs of pressure equipment - these are some of the presentations applied for the jubilee, 20th Croatian Seminar on Pressure Equipment, which takes place on 6 July in Zagreb.

See you soon!

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The people are called to bring judgement on you.
Flee from us, shadows of the night,
Our day has come at last.

In the specials of the portal www.energetika-net.com in June 2023 you can read:

• interview with Tomislav Magić, director of the MI MARIS company on the occasion of its first three decades of successful work

• about large projects in the field of district heating, which will be discussed more at the eponymous conference in September in Osijek

• about the new Clivet heat pumps, which can easily be the only source of heating

• about solutions for heating system installations offered by Oventrop

• about the abandonment of gas heating in Germany and the consequences of such a policy

• a comment on the topic of falling energy prices, which does not implies that everything is OK in the energy and power sector.

Implementation of renewable energy sources projects takes too long, with the biggest hindrance being the vague, incomplete and inadequate legislative framework, which creates almost insurmountable obstacles when preparing projects, i.e. when creating project documentation and obtaining the necessary permits, consents, etc., but also when the final connection of the plant to the power system and its commissioning.

Part of these problems could be solved by the entire process digitalization - both on the side of developers and plant owners and maintenance, and on the side of the 'authorities'. This is precisely why a shorter conference 'FieldWork4RES - Digital Transformation and RES' was held on 6 June this year. For the first time, an integrated solution for asset management and for designing, planning and implementing the construction of renewable sources was presented.

The conference was organized by IT Sistemi, a member of ASEE Group, while ENERGETIKA MARKETING was the media coverage, and Boris Labudović, executive editor of EGE magazine, was the moderator of one of the two round tables, dedicated to the challenges of the energy transition.

The second in this year and 148th overall issue of the EGE has just been published! The main topic of the new issue is cooling, ventilation and air conditioning and, in addition to numerous news from the portoflio of well-known domestic and international equipment manufacturers, you can also read a little more about mergers and acqusitions of companies in this industry, as well as a comprehensive review of the changes that is brought by amendments of 'F-Gas Regulation'.

The pages of the magazine reveal the challenges and obstacles of the green transition and provide an answer to the question of where Croatia is in terms of energy consumption in the world.

Readers who are interested in and follow topics such as hydrogen energy technology, nuclear energy, sustainability, equipment under pressure, new technologies have not been forgotten, and there are reviews of two conferences held in the past few months: Forum on Gas and Klima-forum and the INTER-KLIMA Conference. In addition to the decarbonization in general, it is particularly interesting to highlight the gas technology and the article on the fight against climate change in the German way, i.e. the departure of gas heating into history.

For those who write their history on hard stone
the past can be erased by no one...